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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, December 2006
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0689876912
ISBN-13: 9780689876912
Grades: 7 and up
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- Aesop Accolade
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
- Horn Book Fanfare
- Kansas State Reading Circle Senior High Titles
- Kirkus Editor's Choice
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- USBBY Outstanding International Book
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Description
"Powers of the air, be here now. So mote it be."
Nell is a wild child. Conceived on May Morning, she is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is the village cunning woman's granddaughter: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife...and, some say, a witch.
Grace is a Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret -- a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
A merrybegot and minister's daughter -- two girls who could not have less in common. Yet their fates collide when Grace and her younger sister, Patience, are suddenly spitting pins, struck with fits, and speaking in fevered tongues. The minister is convinced his daughters are the victims of witchcraft. And all signs point to Nell as the source of the trouble....
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Chapter 1"Julie Hearn has crafted a deliciously lyrical novel that is powerful, suspenseful, and taut, with danger on every page. Once you start to read it, just try to put it down again -- I dare you."
-- Libba Bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty
-- Libba Bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty
"Hearn deftly combines lyrical magic with compelling adventure. I loved The Minister's Daughter and can't wait to see what this writer does next."
-- Holly Black, author of Tithe and the Spiderwick Chronicles
-- Holly Black, author of Tithe and the Spiderwick Chronicles
"Hearn creates a richly magical ambiance, straddling the line between the supernatural and the concrete realm of human passions and weaknesses."
-- Horn Book, starred review
"Dramatic and frothy...provocative."
-- BCCB
"A well-written historical novel that reads like a mystery."
-- Wall Street Journal
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